centuplicate
English
editEtymology
editLatin centuplicare. See centuple.
Verb
editcentuplicate (third-person singular simple present centuplicates, present participle centuplicating, simple past and past participle centuplicated)
- To make a hundredfold; to repeat or multiply a hundred times.
- 1655, James Howell, “To R. Baker”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume (please specify the page), London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], →OCLC:
- I perform'd the civilities you enjoyn'd me to your frends here, who return you the like centuplicated
References
edit“centuplicate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Italian
editEtymology 1
editVerb
editcentuplicate
- inflection of centuplicare:
Etymology 2
editParticiple
editcentuplicate f pl
Latin
editVerb
editcentūplicāte
Spanish
editVerb
editcentuplicate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of centuplicar combined with te